I've been trying out the new partitioning in version 10. Firstly, I must
say this is excellent - so much nicer than the old inheritance based method!
My only niggle is the display of partitioned tables via \d etc. e.g:
part=# \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+----------------------+-------+---------- public | date_fact | table | postgres public |
date_fact_201705 | table | postgres public | date_fact_201706 | table | postgres public | date_fact_20170601 |
table| postgres public | date_fact_2017060100 | table | postgres public | date_fact_201707 | table | postgres
public| date_fact_rest | table | postgres
(7 rows)
Now it can be inferred from the names that date_fact is a partitioned
table and the various date_fact_dddd are its partitions - but \d is not
providing any hints of this. The more detailed individual describe is fine:
part=# \d date_fact Table "public.date_fact" Column | Type | Collation |
Nullable| Default
--------+--------------------------+-----------+----------+--------- id | integer | |
notnull | dte | timestamp with time zone | | not null | val | integer | |
notnull |
Partition key: RANGE (dte)
Number of partitions: 6 (Use \d+ to list them.)
I'd prefer *not* to see a table and its partitions all intermixed in the
same display (especially with nothing indicating which are partitions) -
as this will make for unwieldy long lists when tables have many
partitions. Also it would be good if the 'main' partitioned table and
its 'partitions' showed up as a different type in some way.
I note the they do in pg_class:
part=# SELECT relname,relkind,relispartition FROM pg_class WHERE relname
LIKE 'date_fact%'; relname | relkind | relispartition
----------------------+---------+---------------- date_fact | p | f date_fact_201705 | r | t
date_fact_201706 | r | t date_fact_20170601 | r | t date_fact_2017060100 | r | t
date_fact_201707 | r | t date_fact_rest | r | t
(7 rows)
...so it looks to be possible to hide the partitions from the main
display and/or mark them as such. Now I realize that making this comment
now that beta is out is a bit annoying - apologies, but I think seeing a
huge list of 'tables' is going to make \d frustrating for folk doing
partitioning.
regards
Mark
